Example sentences of "improving [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 2 | Worm casts make excellent additives to composts , not only improving the structure of the medium but adding nutrients and growth-promoting hormones too . |
| 3 | In recent years , a lot of work has gone into improving the quality of care that patients receive from the health service . |
| 4 | The report also looks at ways in which the effectiveness and targeting of ICA could be improved — for example by increasing the level , raising the earnings rule and by improving the take-up of Attendance Allowance . |
| 5 | The report , UK levels of health , discusses the need for a common , strategic approach to improving the health of the nation . |
| 6 | All the way through Railfreight 's emergence as a viable , forward-looking concern , the emphasis was on improving the service to the customer . |
| 7 | Follow our guide to updating and improving the lighting in your home . |
| 8 | The revenue from road pricing would be allocated one-third to reducing general taxes , one-third to improving the roads and one-third to improving public transport . |
| 9 | The Sun newspaper is to set up a service called ‘ Hard Views ’ aimed at ‘ cleaning up and improving the standards of journalism in television ’ . |
| 10 | The quarry had a bad reputation , but we are trying to get involved in the local community and are improving the image of quarrying . ’ |
| 11 | Lord Joseph has been interested in the causes of poverty for a long time : as a young man he joined the Howard League for Penal Reform as well as a Quaker group which busied itself about improving the social conditions of the poor . |
| 12 | Environmental protection and wealth creation are in tension but not necessarily in conflict , and indeed there can be little hope of improving the quality of the environment without the resources to do so . |
| 13 | The reason it was suffering a decline was because its product was no longer meeting the aspirations of the young mums in this country , and while other companies were improving their product ranges Mothercare had become stuck in a groove , because the very competent man who ran it really did n't know how to go about improving the product . |
| 14 | While there was no shortage of articulate individuals with the intention of improving the lower orders through their play , the impact of churches , youth movements , and employers was largely restricted to the provision of facilities and routine organization . |
| 15 | Colourist Chris Walton used Medium Blonde and Terra Rosa from Wella 's Colour Touch range to change the tone and deepen the overall colour of Sally 's hair at the same time as encouraging its shine and improving the general condition . |
| 16 | The auditors find fault with every stage of the ministry 's work and call for a review of site research for road improvements after the cost of improving the A6 at Chapel-en-le-Frith , Derbyshire , had jumped from £17 million to £36 million when an embankment and retaining wall collapsed . |
| 17 | The message of the need for more small business counselling , which is now being promoted , is aimed particularly at improving the performance of businesses in the 20-50 employee size range , which are seen to have problems . |
| 18 | BA still has a marketing agreement with United , which it is keen to preserve and the appointment last week of Sir Gordon White of Hanson Industries to the BA board is seen as improving the airline 's negotiating skills in the US . |
| 19 | FROM time to time Fifa , the governing body of world football , comes up with ideas for improving the game , some better than others . |
| 20 | People would judge it ‘ by how it considers questions of revitalising the economy , curbing shortages and improving the life of the workers , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 22 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |
| 23 | Last June , at the end of the year-long ‘ structural impediments initiative ’ talks , American trade negotiators argued that Japan should spend more money on improving the country 's infrastructure . |
| 24 | Throughout the 1980s , changes were introduced in the benefits system , on the one hand keeping out ineligible claimants and on the other improving the system for putting jobless people in touch with vacancies . |
| 25 | A CAP reform should pay farmers for improving the look of the countryside — but proportionately to the physical results , and even-handedly between small farms and large ones . |
| 26 | Interviewed on television , Sir Bob Reid , the chairman of British Rail , urged the government to spend up to £2 billion ( $3.9 billion ) on improving the country 's rail network . |
| 27 | America should spend more on improving the technology of its weapons , and less on actually making them |
| 28 | Every speech John Major makes about improving the public services and creating a social-market economy helps to comfort nervous voters . |
| 29 | ‘ Most men wander out of the way , and fall into error for want of method , as it were for want of sowing and planting , that is , of improving the reason . ’ |
| 30 | Bacon is an ‘ empiricist ’ , not because of some theory which shows that sensory experiential knowledge is superior , or prior , to knowledge acquired by reason , but because of methodological concern for advancing and improving the first kind of knowledge . |